I posted the other day about my lack of confidence in the kitchen. You guys were al really encouraging, and maybe it was lip service – maybe not – but you got excited with me about my granola bar victory. It sounds so silly to say, but it counted to me 🙂 Thanks for that.
So I thought I’d give you an example of something that flopped, but I made it again. My cherry dessert!
I’ll start by telling you, I used a recipe for cherry cheesecake “bars,” and they came out SO soupy and weird. I was pretty discouraged, but I was on the hook for bringing a dessert, so I was basically stuck with it. To be fair, the “event” I was providing dessert for was supper with my parents, so the pressure was pretty low. But still, as I mentioned in my past post, I get VERY discouraged if the food I make doesn’t turn out.
I remember scooping the dessert out into bowls, being pretty embarrassed at how it really hadn’t come together. I’m sure I apologized profusely as I served them out, like I usually do. My mom, being one of the most supportive people in my life, insisted I take the first bite. She was so confident that my creation was going to be delicious. I was less confident. I took that first bite, and…..
I bit down hard on a stupid CHERRY PIT!!!
I was SO mad. Had I seriously somehow purchased cherry pie filling with pits? Who would even sell that stuff? Or buy that stuff?! Completely ridiculous! I was furious.
Luckily, seconds later, everyone had dug in and no one else had gotten a pit. And besides that, everyone said it was delicious. I tentatively went for bite #2, and it really was good!
I’ve made them many times since then, and not even once have they actually been structured bars. It is always a “scoop” dessert. Its never pretty. But its always yummy!
Yay for a failure turned success!!
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Ha! In my attempt to find a picture of this dessert on a past blog, I found a post HERE about the first time I made and how discouraged I was even just in the process of making it. It was from FIVE YEARS AGO!!! I still think that way when I make food, but I like to think I’m a little braver now than I was 🙂